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Murray Gell-Mann wrote this in The Quark and the Jaguar (1994), connecting the thermodynamic concept of entropy — a measure of disorder in a physical system — to information theory and epistemology. The connection between entropy and ignorance was first made explicit by Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener in the late 1940s, and Gell-Mann explored its implications for understanding how complex systems process and store information.